Rachel Richardson
@ichthygirl.bsky.social
Cats, Books, Hockey, Nature, Science, and Crafts. I teach high school Environmental Science and Computer Science too. 🧬🦠🧪🐸 🌎 ♻️💻💾
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A break from Christmas content to enjoy this capybara eating a banana. From François Froger's 'A relation of a voyage ...' (London, 1698).
December 17, 2025 at 9:49 AM
A break from Christmas content to enjoy this capybara eating a banana. From François Froger's 'A relation of a voyage ...' (London, 1698).
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the good that you do persists in this world
December 14, 2025 at 8:20 PM
the good that you do persists in this world
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A Grand Yuletide Theory: The Muppet Christmas Carol is the Best Adaptation of A Christmas Carol
- @ethanwarren.bsky.social
(🎨 by @briannaduggan.bsky.social)
- @ethanwarren.bsky.social
(🎨 by @briannaduggan.bsky.social)
A Grand Yuletide Theory: The Muppet Christmas Carol is the Best Adaptation of A Christmas Carol
Only one movie has ever managed to recreate that uniquely Dickens magic, achieving it not so much through adaptation as through transmutation.
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November 30, 2024 at 6:30 PM
A Grand Yuletide Theory: The Muppet Christmas Carol is the Best Adaptation of A Christmas Carol
- @ethanwarren.bsky.social
(🎨 by @briannaduggan.bsky.social)
- @ethanwarren.bsky.social
(🎨 by @briannaduggan.bsky.social)
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I wrote about 'A Charlie Brown Christmas' for its 60th anniversary (a tv special that remains, for my money, as good as it gets) and how it spiritually intersects with another Christmas staple: Sufjan Stevens. sojo.net/articles/cul...
Charlie Brown and Sufjan Know the ‘Good Grief’ of Christmas
As ‘A Charlie Brown Christmas’ celebrates 60 years, its legacy intersects with another beloved holiday classic: Sufjan Stevens’ ‘Songs for Christmas.’
sojo.net
December 9, 2025 at 3:46 PM
I wrote about 'A Charlie Brown Christmas' for its 60th anniversary (a tv special that remains, for my money, as good as it gets) and how it spiritually intersects with another Christmas staple: Sufjan Stevens. sojo.net/articles/cul...
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Here is a French Christmas ad for a supermarket. It has infinitely better look, story, and message. It actually sparks joy in you rather than leaving you depressed, unlike Coca-Cola and McDonald's AI ads.
December 10, 2025 at 12:19 AM
Here is a French Christmas ad for a supermarket. It has infinitely better look, story, and message. It actually sparks joy in you rather than leaving you depressed, unlike Coca-Cola and McDonald's AI ads.
Warhorse. It is beautifully shot, an excellent cast, and I loved the soundtrack, but I cried so much I was dehydrated and gave myself a migraine.
Never mind movies you’ve watched multiple times, name a movie you’ve watched once and would never watch again.
December 11, 2025 at 10:40 PM
Warhorse. It is beautifully shot, an excellent cast, and I loved the soundtrack, but I cried so much I was dehydrated and gave myself a migraine.
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Dammit, retailers, when I search for “dressing gown” I do not want a selection of flannel bathrobes, I want the one Hercule Poirot wore in the first season of Agatha Christie’s Poirot.
December 10, 2025 at 7:39 AM
Dammit, retailers, when I search for “dressing gown” I do not want a selection of flannel bathrobes, I want the one Hercule Poirot wore in the first season of Agatha Christie’s Poirot.
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NEWS: The Institute of Museum & Library Services has restored ALL previously canceled federal grants to libraries, following a ruling by a federal judge in Rhode Island last month.
This is a massive win for libraries & communities in every state & territory!
Learn more: www.ala.org/news/2025/12...
This is a massive win for libraries & communities in every state & territory!
Learn more: www.ala.org/news/2025/12...
December 3, 2025 at 10:18 PM
NEWS: The Institute of Museum & Library Services has restored ALL previously canceled federal grants to libraries, following a ruling by a federal judge in Rhode Island last month.
This is a massive win for libraries & communities in every state & territory!
Learn more: www.ala.org/news/2025/12...
This is a massive win for libraries & communities in every state & territory!
Learn more: www.ala.org/news/2025/12...
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Computer, please summarize everything PG Wodehouse ever wrote in ten seconds
rich dudes got freakier after butlers fell out of fashion, like say what you will about having domestic servants but clearly it was some sort of moderating force on old rich dudes having a fancy man follow you around saying shit like "oh dear sir, that wouldn't be very becoming"
November 29, 2025 at 9:34 PM
Computer, please summarize everything PG Wodehouse ever wrote in ten seconds
I have been enjoying my time off of work by finishing up an embroidery project I’ve been working on for a long time!
November 28, 2025 at 7:29 PM
I have been enjoying my time off of work by finishing up an embroidery project I’ve been working on for a long time!
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Dress for the job you want (Bog Witch) not the job you have (Regular Witch)
November 28, 2025 at 6:03 PM
Dress for the job you want (Bog Witch) not the job you have (Regular Witch)
Since this is a short school week and I knew a bunch of kids would be out, i wanted to do something kind of fun but wouldn’t be a big deal if students missed, so MOVIE DAY. I decided to show my Computer Science kids the 1995 Apollo 13 movie and they were LOCKED IN.
November 26, 2025 at 12:42 AM
Since this is a short school week and I knew a bunch of kids would be out, i wanted to do something kind of fun but wouldn’t be a big deal if students missed, so MOVIE DAY. I decided to show my Computer Science kids the 1995 Apollo 13 movie and they were LOCKED IN.
I gave Monty’s corner of the classroom a makeover today and finally hung up some of my @sarahmackattack.bsky.social posters! I need to get a couple more frames for the rest of them.
November 25, 2025 at 3:40 PM
I gave Monty’s corner of the classroom a makeover today and finally hung up some of my @sarahmackattack.bsky.social posters! I need to get a couple more frames for the rest of them.
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You will never guess what this is in reference to.
The damned in hell are not more powerful for the fact that the fires do not consume them; it is part and parcel of their torment.
November 23, 2025 at 11:27 AM
You will never guess what this is in reference to.
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maybe the most white millennial coded thing about me is that i kinda think Vampire Weekend is up there with the greats.
November 19, 2025 at 1:27 AM
maybe the most white millennial coded thing about me is that i kinda think Vampire Weekend is up there with the greats.
Tried a new restaurant and had to take an artsy selfie under the lanterns!
November 15, 2025 at 11:07 PM
Tried a new restaurant and had to take an artsy selfie under the lanterns!
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your dead AI mother loves you so much ❤️
November 15, 2025 at 12:50 AM
your dead AI mother loves you so much ❤️
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From this minister's op-ed: "People wanting to experience God are more likely to meet the Divine trying to shut down the Broadview, Illinois, ICE facility than we ever were in church...God does not live in our houses of worship, but...with those who are bearing the brunt of cruelty in this moment."
Oh wow @reuters.com got the photo here:
November 14, 2025 at 9:38 PM
From this minister's op-ed: "People wanting to experience God are more likely to meet the Divine trying to shut down the Broadview, Illinois, ICE facility than we ever were in church...God does not live in our houses of worship, but...with those who are bearing the brunt of cruelty in this moment."
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As of this morning, Starbucks workers across the country are officially ON STRIKE. And we're prepared for this to become the biggest and longest ULP strike in Starbucks history.
Say #NoContractNoCoffee with us: DON'T BUY STARBUCKS for the duration of our open-ended ULP strike! $SBUX
Say #NoContractNoCoffee with us: DON'T BUY STARBUCKS for the duration of our open-ended ULP strike! $SBUX
November 13, 2025 at 11:33 AM
As of this morning, Starbucks workers across the country are officially ON STRIKE. And we're prepared for this to become the biggest and longest ULP strike in Starbucks history.
Say #NoContractNoCoffee with us: DON'T BUY STARBUCKS for the duration of our open-ended ULP strike! $SBUX
Say #NoContractNoCoffee with us: DON'T BUY STARBUCKS for the duration of our open-ended ULP strike! $SBUX
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Send Every Billionaire To The North Pole On A Wooden Ship
we need to return to sending useless rich boys on deadly expeditions
November 13, 2025 at 10:40 PM
Send Every Billionaire To The North Pole On A Wooden Ship
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Heads up: If you haven't read A Wizard's Guide to Defensive Baking by @tkingfisher.com (and frankly that's criminal in the first place) and you're on Audible, it's part of the 2 for 1 sale right now. You won't regret it.
It has a possibly sentient, probably murderous sourdough starter in it.
It has a possibly sentient, probably murderous sourdough starter in it.
November 12, 2025 at 8:45 PM
Heads up: If you haven't read A Wizard's Guide to Defensive Baking by @tkingfisher.com (and frankly that's criminal in the first place) and you're on Audible, it's part of the 2 for 1 sale right now. You won't regret it.
It has a possibly sentient, probably murderous sourdough starter in it.
It has a possibly sentient, probably murderous sourdough starter in it.
I have been listening to this and it is simultaneously managing to be REALLY CREEPY but also super charming and cozy. I’m almost finished but so far, I love it!
November 13, 2025 at 1:38 AM
I have been listening to this and it is simultaneously managing to be REALLY CREEPY but also super charming and cozy. I’m almost finished but so far, I love it!
I am so pleased that I have FINALLY identified the song title and artist of a song that I heard YEARS ago, like 17 years ago, and have been trying to figure out what it was ever since. It’s I Make the Dough, You Get the Glory by Kathleen Edwards!
November 11, 2025 at 10:58 PM
I am so pleased that I have FINALLY identified the song title and artist of a song that I heard YEARS ago, like 17 years ago, and have been trying to figure out what it was ever since. It’s I Make the Dough, You Get the Glory by Kathleen Edwards!
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Chuck Schumer Helps Pull Democrats Back From Brink Of Courage
November 10, 2025 at 5:02 AM
Chuck Schumer Helps Pull Democrats Back From Brink Of Courage